0 present participle of hone --
2 to make something perfect or completely suitable for its purpose: --
We must consider honing those down to a handful of effective bodies rather than continuing with the hurly-burly of bodies that have grown up over many years.
The high readiness states which our aircrew have to maintain for participation in operations or preparation for conflict only allows for the honing of low flying expertise, not its creation.
Authors usually take great care in honing their opening sentences.
There are hundreds of would-be politicians honing their skills and raising the expectations of their electorates.
Instead of that they have apparently gone on honing against hope that the parties would come together and making suggestions.
There was excessive engine vibration, which was partially cured by a complete engine rebore and cylinder honing.
In many respects, the objective of the report is to improve the detail and honing of legislation.
The debate is timely because each party, in its own way, has been building a family policy and honing the issues before a general election.
